An Indonesia transport safety investigator has said there is no data available that would confirm the theory of the AirAsia jet exploding before it hit the water – after earlier claims to the contrary.

"There is no data to support that kind of theory," said
Santoso Sayogo, an investigator at the National Transportation
Safety Committee.

Earlier, an Indonesian search and rescue official said that the
AirAsia jet was likely to have exploded before hitting the water,
judging by the wreckage.

"My analysis is, based on the wreckage found and other
findings, the plane experienced an explosion before it hit the
water," Suyadi Bambang Supriyadi, operations coordinator at
the National Search and Rescue Agency, told reporters.

It comes after the plane’s two black boxes were discovered by
search and rescue teams; one of them has been salvaged so far.

"The download is easy, probably one day. But the reading is
more difficult <...> could take two weeks to one
month," the National Transportation Safety Committee head
investigator, Mardjono Siswosuwarno, said, as quoted by Reuters.

However, if the black boxes aren’t badly damaged, preliminary
results may appear in two days.